Sooner born and Sooner bred!

Bryce and Laney ready for their first football season! Go OU!!

6 Months Old!

We can hardly believe that Bryce and Laney are 6 months old! Time has just flown by. We're thankful that they're both very healthy after a bit of a rough start. There will still be some developmental delays over this next year or so as they catch up but they're doing great! We're really enjoying being parents and can't wait to see what's in store for the next 6 months!

This also seems like a perfect time to say thank you to all of our family and friends for doing so much for us over the past months. You've loved and taken care of Bryce & Laney, brought food, cleaned, washed bottles (boy our sweet Moms did a million!), sent cards, given gifts, shared your experiences & been encouraging, taken over things for us at work, called, emailed, thought about and prayed for us, kept up with our blog, listened to us...and the list could go on. We love and appreciate you all so much and honestly couldn't have made it without you!!!! THANK YOU!

Here's Laney with Mr. Bear (this is the bear that Kevin gave me when we were in High School)! We're going to try to take pictures with him on the month birthdays to show how they've grown.

Like my new bow (Anne and Jodie)!
At 6 months Laney is such a happy, smiley girl! She thinks her daddy is especially funny! She loves when people talk and sing to her.
She loves to be held and would spend all her time sitting on someone's lap if she could!
Bryce and Mr. Bear
At 6 months Bryce is very active and strong! He can sit up like this for at least 10 minutes. He's getting better at turning over every day. His favorite things are the music & lights on his bouncy seat...he thinks they're hilarious! He's obsessed with ceiling fans too. :)

He's also started sucking his thumb this week while he sleeps. I tried replacing it with his pacifier but no luck. :) He does look cute though!

I thought it would be fun to see how the size of the diapers and onsies have changed! Those tiny diapers were huge on them when they were first born! Laney's onsie is newborn size and Bryce's is 0-3 months.

A few funny faces from Bryce that I couldn't help but share!

Adorable Baby Jace!

Our sweet little nephew Jace came over this weekend for his first visit with his cousins! Isn't he the cutest!

Bryce and Jace meeting! Bryce was so interested...
Jace was sleeping when Laney got up from her nap for the introductions!
The cousins! Laney thought it was so funny when Jace cried right next to her.

Saturday morning at our house!

Hanging out in our PJ's!

Bryce working on turning over! He did it for us 3 times on Friday but hasn't done it since.

Bryce and Laney ready for their 8am nap!
Maddie patiently waiting for them to go to bed so that I'll pet her!

Laney in her PJ's!

I thought this was a cute one of them looking at each other too.

Michelle's Baby Shower!

The theme was Pickles and Ice Cream! We can't wait to meet Baby Ryan!

Introducing our new nephew!!!!!

Jace Devin Elias was born on August 11, 2008 at 5:55pm. He weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and was 20 inches long. Everyone is doing well and so excited to welcome him to our family!!! More pictures to come I'm sure! Isn't he adorable! Congratulations Renee, Phil and big brother Cade!

Lots of Milestones!

Lately we've had lots of milestones at our house:

Bryce:
~he has started smiling more often (especially at the music and lights on the bouncy seat!)
~he turned over one time!
~he can sit up in the bumbo seat with no help...he's getting much better head control

Laney:
~she's started laughing!
~she can sit in the bumbo seat without help

We also took them out to dinner with friends for the first time! They did great...as long as Melanie and Halie held them!

This week...

Pictures!

Here are a bunch of the pictures we had done at our house!